Water Resources Institutions and Policies
Examines governmental processes, policies, and political decision-making for water resources management, including organizational and intergovernmental arrangements.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Describe the historical and institutional dimensions of water resources planning, management, and policy.
Summarize the overall U.S. water resources “institutional landscape”—the array of institutional arrangements that comprise our system for addressing water resource issues and problems—and relative strengths and weaknesses of various approaches and system components.
Articulate the limitations of the existing water resources management framework, along with opportunities and strategies for reform, for addressing various substantive ecological water issues (e.g., watershed protection, restoration, and management; water allocation; groundwater; water quality and quantity; etc.).
Identify and evaluate selected institutional and societal issues pertinent to water resources policy and management, including through an equity lens (e.g., integrated environmental collaborative watershed approaches, intergovernmental roles, program implementation, etc.).
Evaluate institutional effectiveness in addressing and resolving water resource issues and problems management, collaborative watershed approaches, intergovernmental roles, program implementation, etc.).
Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenges of water resource protection and restoration.
Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).
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Topics
- Governmental processes, political decision making, and intergovernmental arrangements in water resources management.
- Substantive ecological water issues including watershed protection/restoration, water allocation, groundwater, and water quality/quantity.
- Sustainability principles, frameworks, and systems-based analysis for water resource protection and restoration.
Skills
- Describing historical/institutional dimensions and summarizing the U.S. water resources institutional landscape.
- Articulating framework limitations/reform strategies and evaluating institutional/societal issues through an equity lens.
- Applying sustainability principles/frameworks and analyzing issues using a systems-based approach.
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